Stepfamilies across Europe and Overseas, 1550–1900 (Paperback)

Introduction: Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550?1900? 1. Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708?1834? 2. Parental loss in 18th?19th century Hungary: the impact of the parents’ widowhood and remarriage on their children’s survival, Zsambek, 1720?1850? 3. Stepfamilies, inheritance, and living arrangements in a rural society of Germany? 4. Remarriage and stepfamilies in the ‘Western Islands’ of Europe: the rural Azores of Portugal in the 18th and 19th centuries? 5. The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth? and nineteenth?century Porto? 6. Changing patterns of hierarchy within Swedish stepfamilies in the late 1700s? 7. Stepmothers and stepdaughters in early modern Florence? 8. Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka? Epilogue: A visual approach to stepfamilies